helpfulcharlie
Probably not the real Chuck Finley
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Exactly my thoughts. I was looking for this answer, scrolling through the posts, and here it is.
Yes, it's a tough call when something like that happens to you, right? Maybe you're asked to decide whether you want to ruin this "kid's" life over something that, in the end, maybe didn't seem so serious and was clearly the result of a breakdown of some sort. And in that moment in time, before anyone can see the future, you're talked into giving the kid a break. Given the history, nobody expected anything like what ended up happening.
Then after the fact, you probably have some survivor's guilt, and realize that maybe if you'd pressed the issue, the bad thing might not have happened.
The reality was he was escalating, and something else probably would have happened even if he had pressed charges.